BLOOMSDAY marks the day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses takes place. It is celebrated every year on 16th June by Joyceans all over the world. In Dublin, where the novel is set, Bloomsday celebrations go on for a week, with most of the attention on the day itself.
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Temple Bar Bloomsday Line Up:
** 11am - 3pm: Reading & Songs in the Square (Meeting House Square)
** 12pm - 2pm: Blooms Day Jazz Band (Bank of Ireland College Green)
** 12:30 - 2pm: Guinness Jazz Band (Temple Bar Square)
** 1:30 -3:30pm: Jazz Quartet (Fleet Street)
** 7:30pm: Special screening of John Huston’s classic film adaptation of Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ story at the IFI this Bloomsday. (Irish Film Institute)
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